As the special legislative session gets underway today in Tallahassee on federal vaccine and mask mandates on COVID-19, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has withdrawn its request to start a catastrophe fund in Florida …
First responders would receive workers’ compensation insurance benefits for COVID-19 exposure under a bill recently filed in the Florida Legislature, in advance of the first of six legislative committee weeks that begin on September 20. …
The possibility that the current pandemic may not be an infrequent event has the workers’ compensation insurance industry proposing a new multi-million dollar catastrophe fund that businesses would pay into through a special annual …
It may come as no surprise that states with the highest hurricane risk and that are suffering the highest number of COVID-19 cases might have an especially big problem if the two catastrophes …
The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) has scored another set of arrests in recent Workers’ Compensation fraud cases against Florida contractors that collectively amount to nearly $1 million in rightfully owed but illegally avoided insurance premiums. …
There are a couple of proposed changes in insurance regulation underway in Florida to share with you this edition. One involves workers’ compensation and the other pertains to service warranty and home warranty …
More than one-third of Americans eliminated one insurance policy in 2020, but those out of work because of COVID-19 were much more likely to shed coverage. The news comes as workers’ compensation insurance cases related to the pandemic …
We will be starting the new year of 2021 with lower workers’ compensation insurance rates here in the Sunshine State. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved a statewide overall decrease of 6.6% …
To be sure, there’s a plethora of insurance issues that the new Florida Legislature will face as well. We’ve chronicled many of them in these pages over the past months, including a few that …
After a big spike in July, the number of workers’ compensation indemnity claims filed in Florida related to COVID-19 continues to fall significantly. September claims numbered 578, down from the 2,469 in August and the …
